Nootka

Nootka Featured Original

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): https://www.opencode.net/seelook/nootka

Available as/for: Android (APK)AppImageDebian (.deb)OS-X compatibleSource-CodeWindows Binary32bit - x8664bit - x86arm64 - 64bitarmhf - 32bitstable

Description:

Nootka is open-source application
to help with learning (also with teaching) classical score notation.
Mostly it is for guitarists,
but it can be used for ear training as well.
Simply: users looks at piece of a score, plays it, Nootka is listening to it, checks and shows was it played well. All in real time.

Features:

interactive interface to discover the rules of musical notation
exercises with possibility to create own sets
accurate method for detecting sung and played sounds and melodies
natural sound of guitars
clefs (treble, bass and others) and grand staff
analyze of results
different kinds of guitars and theirs tuning
Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Russian and Slovenian translations

Binary packages are available for Linux, Windows, MacOs and Android.

Last changelog:

Changes 1 month ago

1.7.3-beta3
- new, better way of detecting note/rest duration (rhythms)
- exam melodies from melody set can be played in order
- melodies order in set is editable
- user can define repeats number of melodies from the set
- hundreds of smaller improvements and bug fixes
ANDROID
- display menu entries to navigate exam (along with quick buttons)
- indicate input volume by scaling menu button dot
- option for suspending mic when screen was touched
LINUX
- fixed AppImage issues - works under Wayland as well
MAC
- Nootka is available again for Os X

1.7.2-beta2
- improved analysis charts (look and behavior)
- improved tuner
- notes with the same pitches can be tied by user
- fixed/improved transposition of bass guitar
- many bug fixes
- ... and many many more functional changes
ANDROID
- configurable options for full screen, rotation and lock
- added zoom for tapping piano keys
- improved controls for navigating exams (check, next, etc.)

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Bhante
2 years ago

9 Outstanding music/guitar teaching app. Excellent programming skills are evident.

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FraMari
7 years ago

So fftw is not nedded anymore?

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SeeLook
7 years ago

FFTW is still necessary (maybe even more than before :-) )

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SeeLook
7 years ago

Here is a part of Arch pkg
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://${_pkgname}.sourceforge.net/"
license=('GPL')
depends=('qt4' 'fftw' 'shared-mime-info' 'libvorbis')
if [ "$CARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
depends[${#depends[@]}]=soundtouch
elif [ "$CARCH" = "i686" ]; then
depends[${#depends[@]}]=lib32-soundtouch
fi
optdepends=('jack: for Jack Audio Connection Kit support'
'libpulse: for PulseAudio')

makedepends=('mercurial' 'cmake' 'qt4' 'fftw' 'libvorbis' 'soundtouch')
install="${pkgname}.install"

When user will have libpulse it builds with it. The same with jack.

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FraMari
7 years ago

Thanks a lot!

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wolftune
8 years ago

Thanks, just discovered this!

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dglent
8 years ago

Package for Mageia 2 64bit
http://mageia-gr.org/rpm/2/x86_64/nootka-0.8.0-1mgr2.x86_64.rpm

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SeeLook
8 years ago

Thanks a lot !!
I will push it to download site.
How do You think, will it work with others 64bit rpm-s distros ?

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dglent
8 years ago

Probably in fedora. In Mandriva i don't know because they use rpm5 (instead rpm.org that use mageia and fedora)

I used this spec:
http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/nootka/current/SPECS/nootka.spec?revision=280846&view=markup
normaly it will be included in the official repos of Mageia for the next version Mageia 3.

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SeeLook
8 years ago

There is posibility to build 'universal' rpm but unfortinately I didn't put description in README.
If You invoke cpack -G RPM in build directory after compilation, You will get nootka's binary rpm, but as I understand, it is not pure distro way.
However You can have a look to nootka's sources, in packaging/rpm/nootka.spec.in there is template for this rpm.
Can You generate such rpm also, I will complete downloads.

It's great that nootka is going to be in official Mageia repositories. Maybe I will be ready with next stable release to that time.
Greetings!

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dglent
8 years ago

I am not sure but i think that this rpm may be installed correctly in many rpm distro, as the files that installs are in "standard" paths. The problem is that i don't know other distro's packages policy and i cannot be sure for installation in other distros

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FraMari
9 years ago

Hi, i added this software to the Chakra Community Repository (CCR)
[http://chakra-linux.org/ccr/packages.php?ID=2967]

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SeeLook
9 years ago

It's very nice. Thanks a lot !!!

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Changes 1 month ago

Changes 1 year ago

1.4.5
Nootka says: I speak Hungarian
- added Hungarian translations
- Stylus support on touch screens (Requires Qt 5.9/Android 4.2 and above)
- using secure SSL connections when possible (update check, links)